How Smartphones and Smartwatches Changed Search

“On a phone, the biggest intellectual difference is you don’t go to your search box as your first resort,” said Keith Rabois, a partner at the venture capital firm Khosla Ventures, who has invested in a search start-up called Relcy. “On a watch, it’s inconceivable that you would go to a search box perhaps at all.”

This is why Google and Apple are investing so intensely in advancing Google Now and Siri.